French Culture
Why the French do higher education better
Unlike in Britain, students are treated as the adults that they are
Boulez celebrated but titans ignored
Two painful coincidences underline the imbalance of a presidential command
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt